Sunday Tennesseean Newspaper-Steel Guitar Article

Joan Cox · Post by **Joan Cox** » 29 Jul 2002 4:02 am

Those of you here in TN..did you see the article in the Sunday paper? It's about a 5 page article about the steel guitar..It was in the "Life" section. It was done by a reporter that attended the last SuperJam..Some great pictures..lots of history..and interviews with several of the players who were there. There were pictures in the article taken at the SuperJam. Some really good ones of Jr.,Robby, and Johnny and a neat picture of Buddy and Hal. It went into detail talking about the mechanics of the instrument pointing out how it works, and how difficult they are to play. It was a well written article and gave our instrument some long overdue press. They had some neat pictures of Johnny's triple neck too. Did anyone see it?
Joan

Roger Kelly · Post by **Roger Kelly** » 29 Jul 2002 4:15 am

http://tennessean.com/features/living/archives/02/07/20300388.shtml?Element_ID=20300388
Here's a link to that story...hope I did it right.

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 29 Jul 2002 4:25 am

We've already been discussing it over in Steel Players.

http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum15/HTML/002339.html

Sam White · Post by **Sam White** » 29 Jul 2002 5:41 pm

Hi Joan thank you for the Information on the steel guitar. I copyed the whole thing and I will put it in my Rhode Island Steel Guitar Asssociations Leager that I have for my own personal file.I may have our Editor put it in our Quarterly news Letter.I seen you play in 1997 at the Alanta travaganza before you became Mrs. Cox.Thanks again and good luck to you and Johnny and both of you keep the steel playing going.
President R.I. Steel Guitar Assoc.
Sam White

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 29 Jul 2002 7:40 pm

Sam, if you look at the web page again, that story is copyrighted. Maybe if you ask the paper and/or the author, you could get permission to reprint it, but otherwise you'd be breaking the law.

Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 29 Jul 2002 10:32 pm

I called the paper,wanting to find out how I could use the pic of Buddy & Hal for the front cover of our next newsletter. They wanted $30,if you wanted a copy for your own "personal" use,& $200,if you wanted to reproduce it on any publication. Needless to say,we "opted out".

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Bill Crook · Post by **Bill Crook** » 30 Jul 2002 3:10 am

Damn shame that big business is so greedy !!

Smiley, You can use any of the pics I did at the jam at NO charge. a couple of them are almost at the same angle as the newspaper ones. See Buddy for details.

Bill

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 30 Jul 2002 3:19 am

Now just how much of those 30 or 200 smackers would go to Buddy, Hal + the Photographer ?
it's all about Money, ain't a d--n thing funny,
you gotta have a con in this land of milk + honey
Steelin'France[This message was edited by CrowBear Schmitt on 30 July 2002 at 12:13 PM.]

Larry Bell · Post by **Larry Bell** » 30 Jul 2002 4:08 am

I guess that makes it the land of milk and MONEY, huh?

Pretty sad.

Are these SG Organizations non-profit? If so, did you tell the Tennessean? That may make a difference, but it's pretty shameful in any case.

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Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 30 Jul 2002 4:48 am

I'd still like to save the video clips to my computer "for my own use". So far all I can save is the link.

Has anyone figured out how to save the .ram files?

Sam White · Post by **Sam White** » 30 Jul 2002 8:55 am

OK so I won't have it in our news letter.I have a copy from my computer and I can copy that because it is my computer.Any thing on it is free to copy.The Rhode Island Steel Guitar Association is a non profet Organization and most of the money we take in goes to The Goslin Clinic in Boston Mass. for children with sugar Diabetes and the wish come true for kids.So you can see we are not in it for the money.We do it for the kids and to have fun playing our Steels.These money hungary Bs should rot in you know where.GREAD GREAD GREAD that is all it is.They are jealuos that the steel is making a big come back and we will make sure it does as dedicated steel players and Steel lovers.This guy Smiley in R.I. told me who is behind all this about putting the Steel Guitar down and the Boys won't run the steel guitar associations as there are to many of them.Now I went and put my two cents in the bucket.
Sam White[This message was edited by Samuel E. White on 30 July 2002 at 09:57 AM.]

Bill Sampler · Post by **Bill Sampler** » 22 Oct 2004 11:46 am

I know this is an old thread, but this is a great article. What I would like to know is what song is Buddy Emmons playing in the video labled "Clip 2 Tearing it up..."

I've heard this song a few times and was just wondering if anyone knew the name.

Thanx

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Roger Evilsizor · Post by **Roger Evilsizor** » 22 Oct 2004 1:09 pm

Bill,
I believe this is without a doubt A Way To Survive.

Roger Evilsizor · Post by **Roger Evilsizor** » 22 Oct 2004 1:16 pm

Jim,
To save the video files to your computer, simply Right Click on the highlighted file name and then click Save Target As and press Enter after noting the desination so you know where to find it. This should work for you - mine worked fine. Hope this helps

Clint Queen · Post by **Clint Queen** » 22 Oct 2004 3:21 pm

Joan,
That same article came out several years ago, inside the same newspaper (Middle Tennessee). It was "borrowed" and distributed by several sources then and nothing, legality wise, came of it from their news staff. So don't sweat it.